A famous Israeli Arab soccer player may join an Israeli soccer team known for its anti-Arab fans. Betar Jerusalem reportedly is making a bid to sign Abbas Suan from Bnei Sakhnin. Suan made international headlines after he scored a big goal for Israel’s national team in a World Cup qualifying game earlier this year, and… More ▸
Israeli Arab soccer players protested a refusal by Israel’s soccer federation to reschedule soccer games during Ramadan. Monday’s protest came after a mixed Arab-Jewish team played a game Saturday night that began four minutes after sundown. More ▸
CHICAGO — MRIs are more effective at detecting breast cancer caused by gene mutations occurring in some 2 percent of Ashkenazi women than are mammographies, according to a new study. The study involving the mutation to the BRCA genes, which have been linked to breast and ovarian cancers in Ashkenazi Jewish women, is published in… More ▸
Standing below a sky bursting with fireworks, Gloria Suciu says being an athlete at the Maccabiah Games is a world away from competing in her native Europe. Suciu, a tennis player from Cluj, Romania, stood in wonder at being part of a sporting event with so many other Jews. Some 7,000 athletes from 52 countries… More ▸
Ron Carner has no problem mixing politics with sports — in fact, that’s one of the reasons he’s so proud of the Maccabiah Games. “We’re telling the anti-Semites where they can shove their hate,” says Carner, the vice president of Maccabi USA, which is sending about 780 athletes to the 17th Games, which run from… More ▸
With help from a French soccer star, French anti-racist groups are investigating how to combat racism and anti-Semitism. The investigation by the groups, which include SOS Racisme, the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism and the Union of Jewish Students of France, comes after the group met on the issue with the French minister of… More ▸
Eighty-five policemen reportedly were injured in Rome after clashes with soccer fans who chanted anti-Semitic slogans and held banners with swastikas. The violence occurred Sunday during a match between Lazio and Livorno. Some Lazio fans, who are known to be right-wingers, yelled “Jews, Jews” at the Livorno players, yet also yelled “Fedayeen,” referring to the… More ▸
As Arabs throughout the region prepared to commemorate Land Day, an annual protest day in the Israeli Arab community, the mood among Israel’s one million Arab citizens rarely had been better. Viewed objectively, the situation of Arabs in Israeli society has not improved drastically, but at least they’re starting to feel that they’re being taken… More ▸
The coach of a top British soccer team met with young Israeli and Palestinian soccer players in Israel to promote peace. Jose Mourinho, coach of Chelsea, is on a two-day visit to Israel that included Sunday’s “peace tournament” in Ramat Gan, in which 200 Israeli and Palestinian children competed. More ▸
When they heard that Ireland would be playing Israel in a qualifying match for soccer’s World Cup, thousands of Irish soccer-lovers rushed to book their Easter holidays in Tel Aviv. Ireland is one of Europe’s wettest countries, so the thought of supporting the “boys in green” in a land of warmth and sunshine was too… More ▸
High Holidays 2016
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Election 2016
